What’s new in Advance Design 2010 - Graitec

What’s new in Advance Design 2010

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Table of contents

Welcome to AD 2010!...................................................................................... 4 Technology ...................................................................................................... 5

FlexNet protection system .......................................................................... 5 New starting wizard .................................................................................... 5

GRAITEC BIM TECHNOLOGY....................................................................... 7 Eurocode 1 ...................................................................................................... 8

Wind actions on outdoor panels (§7.4.3).................................................... 8 Wind on lattice structure and scaffolding elements (§7.11)........................ 9 Wind on “Awning” ..................................................................................... 11 Snow accumulation .................................................................................. 12

Eurocode 8 .................................................................................................... 13 British standard BS8110................................................................................ 14 Modeling ........................................................................................................ 15

Management of beam boundary conditions ............................................. 15 Selection by systems................................................................................ 16 Units of loads in the property list .............................................................. 16 “Purge” function for systems..................................................................... 17

Solver ............................................................................................................ 18

Time history analysis ................................................................................ 18 Post-processing............................................................................................. 19

Eigen vectors on selection........................................................................ 19 Selection of combinations......................................................................... 19 Scale of graphical results ......................................................................... 20 Diagrams on planar elements................................................................... 21 Annotations on connections ..................................................................... 22


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Welcome to AD 2010! At the beginning of this year, GRAITEC released version 2009 of Advance Design, focusing its development on user requests: Latest version of Eurocodes, capability to deal with large models using full 64-bit compliancy, advanced FEM engine for time history analysis, semi-rigid links, speed optimization, new steel objects, etc. Advance Design 2010 follows the 2009 release with Eurocode 8 for seismical analysis, the British standards (BS8110) for concrete design, more possibilities with the climatic generator according to Eurocode 1 (outdoor panes, wind on trusses), and many small improvements. We hope that AD 2010 will help you manage all your projects more effectively and increase your productivity. Welcome to AD 2010!


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Technology FlexNet protection system With Advance Design 2010, the latest FlexNet technology (Acresso) is used. This technology increases the license delivery to end-users. It also allows a license to be borrowed from a network license server and easily moved from one computer to another. Advance Design 2010 can be installed on a network or individual workstations. The standalone license offers great value for single users, while the floating licenses offer flexibility and the opportunity to share software among multiple users. See the installation guide for more information about all these new functionalities.

New starting wizard When starting Advance Design, a new wizard helps users create a new project, to set up the parameters of the application or to open existing or most recent projects.


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When clicking the "Configuration" button, the user directly accesses the general settings (GUI and report languages, codes to apply, national appendix, etc.).

It is also possible to prevent this wizard from being displayed when starting Advance Design. The option is available in the "Options - Application" dialog box:


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GRAITEC BIM TECHNOLOGY The GRAITEC BIM Technology has been updated in order to include the compound sections when exchanging files between Advance Design and Advance Steel:


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Eurocode 1 Wind actions on outdoor panels (§7.4.3) Advance Design is able to calculate automatically the effects of the wind on outdoor panels according to Clause 7.4.3 of Eurocode 1 (EN 1991-1-4). The software calculates the resultant wind, taking into account the

fc coefficient.

This resultant force is placed on the wind wall taking into account the normative eccentricity: be 25.0±= .

This new option is available in the property list of the wind wall:


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Wind on lattice structure and scaffolding elements (§7.11) This new functionality allows the user to generate automatically the wind effects on a lattice structure or scaffolding according to Clause 7.11 of Eurocode 1 (EN 1991-1-4). This part of Eurocode 1 is available only for square or triangular structures. If the user tries to apply this wind generation on any other shape, an error message will appear detailing the limits of the code. In order for Advance Design to be able to detect automatically the global shape of the structure, the user has to model wind walls on the supporting elements. In the property list of these elements, the user has to select the corresponding option:

When the user activates the attribute "Lattice structure or scaffolding", the software will apply the loads directly on the truss elements and not on the wind walls.


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The linear elements have a new property that can be activated: the corresponding elements will be taken into account as supporting elements for the wind (specific option for this part of the wind generator). It allows the user to not consider secondary elements as supporting elements with regard to wind actions according to §7.11 of EC1.

The force coefficient 0,fc is defined automatically according to Tables 7.33,

7.34 and 7.35 of EN 1991-1-4.

Image 7.32 - Lattice structure or scaffolding

Image 7.34 - Force coefficient cf,0 of a 3D lattice

structure composed of profiles function of filling rate φ

Image 7.33 - Force coefficient cf,0 of a plane lattice

structure composed of profiles function of filling rate φ

Image 7.35 - Force coefficient cf,0 of plane and 3D

structures composed of elements with circular cross section


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Wind on “Awning” Advance Design is able to generate the wind on awnings according to Clause 7.2.1 (Note 3) of Eurocode 1:

This option is available in the property list of the wind walls:


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Snow accumulation Advance Design 2010 automatically generates the snow accumulation due to another part of the structure. This accumulation is calculated according to Clause 5.3.6 of EN 1991-1-3:

The user will automatically get the following loading schema:


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Eurocode 8 The seismical spectrum generator of Advance Design has been updated according the Eurocode 8. The user can activate this new code from the localization settings dialog:

When creating one or several seicmical load cases, the user access to the different Eurocode 8 parameters, directly in the property list of the corresponding load case:

Elastic or design Spectrum. Visualization of soil parameter and

characteristics periods depending on user’s data’s.

Spectrum visualisation.


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British standard BS8110 New concrete design engine according to BS8110:

Tension and compression design Beam design according to required reinforcement values Column design according to specific methods (short and slender

columns) Specific algorithm for automatic buckling length calculation Option to set minimal reinforcement values Set angle for transverse reinforcement and concrete rods Exact calculation of crack width


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Modeling Management of beam boundary conditions A new option, in the application settings dialog box, allows the possibility to automatically update the “end releases” of a beam when creating a connection between two elements:

Example of automatic update:

The user creates a beam hinged at the column, meaning that the rotations are released.

Then, at the same location, the user creates a “Flange Haunch” connection.

Detecting this situation, Advance Design will automatically cancel the rotation’s releases between the beam and the column.

When detecting this kind of problem with the option switched off, Advance Design will display an error message.


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Selection by systems A new tab, in the selection tool dialog box, allows the user to select elements by system:

Units of loads in the property list The unit of the load is indicated in the property list:


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“Purge” function for systems A new function “Purge” allows the user to automatically delete empty systems. This function is available from the pilot’s contextual menu: “System management \ Purge”.


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Solver Time history analysis When running a time history analysis, the solver needs to know on which nodes to save the results. In the property list of the “Time history analysis”, the user can define a list of points where the solver will calculate and save the time history results.

If the software detects, when running a time history analysis, that no point has been defined, it will display an error message. The user also has the option to calculate the results at all nodes of the structure. It will significantly increase the calculation time.


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Post-processing Eigen vectors on selection With Advance Design 2010, it is possible to view the Eigen vectors on a selection of nodes. In previous versions, the Eigen vectors were always shown on all nodes resulting in thousands of pages of results on big models with a large number of calculated modes. This new option will speed up the work of engineers when they need, for example, to get the Eigen vectors on a floor in order to know where to apply dynamic loads for a vibratory analysis. Selection of combinations To simplify the selection of combinations when post-processing the results, the initial field for manually entering the codes or identifiers of combinations has been replaced by a list of existing items:


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Scale of graphical results A new option, in the results settings dialog box, can automatically define the best scale to display the deformed shape of the structure:


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Diagrams on planar elements The user has the option to display the results on planar elements through diagrams in the local axes: “Diagrams along x” or “Diagrams along y”:

This option is useful when the user wants to post-process graphically bending moments diagrams on planar elements.


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Annotations on connections Two new annotations are available on connections in order to more easily locate a connection with a work rate greater than 100% (design failed) or smaller than 50% (not economical design):

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